US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Sept. 8 for "Therapy upgrade system for implantable devices" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,270, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Therapy upgrade system for implantable devices" was invented by Hyun J. Yoon (Vadnais Heights, Minn.) and James H. Borowick (Minnetrista, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, the disclosure describes devices, systems, and methods for determining settings of a second implantable medical device (IMD) based on patient information stored in a first IMD. The first IMD may be a device already implanted in a patient and a clinician may remove and replace the first IMD with the second IMD. The second IMD may include may be an upgrade over the first IMD (...